Assembling kidney tissues from cells: The long road from organoids to Organs

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Hariharan, Krithika ^a   Kurtz, Andreas ^a,b   Schmidt Ott, Kai M ^a,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kidney development; Organoids; Pluripotent stem cells; Stem cell differentiation; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016181593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2015.00070     Document Type: Review

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